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The PAPERWALKER Journal is the personal weblog of award-winning character designer Florian Satzinger – who worked on characters such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Silvester etc.), Animaniacs (Pinky And The Brain), A.J.Hogg and Scooby-Doo – in which he shares bits and pieces of his character design work, processes, visual development, inspirations and reference materials of current, past and future projects.
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Throwback Saturday: 8-bit street

Back in early 2013, Disney transformed East London's Brick Lane marketplace into a landscape equipped with solid 8-bit sculpts promoting the U.K. release of animated film 'Wreck-It Ralph'. (images via Designweek UK)
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Duckstaposed!

Rough sketch of a random duck with way too long legs, wearing a Donald Duck costume and a furry Mouseketeer hat juxtaposed with an on-model Donald Duck recreated from an original drawing from the 1950 "Standard Duck" model sheet. ---
#parodyart #donaldduck #roughsketch
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Monday, July 06, 2020

Duck's Nest, drawing process bits

This is pretty much the whole process, I think I didn't left anything out.
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Saturday, July 04, 2020

1977 Howard The Duck model sheet

Redesign by Disney, given to Marvel after some copyright issues >> Full story
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Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Desk Rider

Rough development process pieces, these here are from 2014.
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Duck's Nest, Skull Sweet Home

I'm about to order a black tee with the 'Duck's Nest' sujet on it, just for the heck of it. Shall I make it available to you as well?
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

One thumb, three fingers

Fictional anatomy study, dark feathered duck arm wearing a yellow glove, ca. 2018.

Image © by Florian Satzinger. All rights reserved.

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Friday, June 19, 2020

Lucky Luke addresses racism

The new Lucky Luke comic album - UN COW-BOY DANS LE COTON - will be out on October 23rd, this year. I'm really looking forward to this. I think it marks the very first time a Lucky Luke story addresses slavery and racism as the principal theme. The title 'UN COW-BOY DANS LE COTON' could be translated like 'The Cowboy in the Cotton', I guess (cf. 'The Catcher in the Rye').

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#LuckyLuke #Dargaud #Achde
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Duck de Spirou

The cartoon characters that made me. Juxtaposition or blend of the two characters who I think had the biggest impact on my style, André Franquin's Spirou and Carl Barks' Donald Duck.
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#juxtapose #andrefranquin #carlbarks #spirou #donaldduck #popartlife
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Monday, June 15, 2020

When the brand becomes "more original" than its own creator

I love the story behind this very photograph from 1959:
«Disneyland, September, 1959. My [rysung] mom in a close encounter with Walt Disney. When she asked him for an autograph, he politely declined, saying that she could write to his office for one. This seems consistent with what I heard many years ago, that he didn't like to spontaneously hand out autographs because his authentic signature wasn't quite like the official Disney logo.»

- Update - For more on this and the probably most recognizable signature in the world, please check out Leonard Maltin's posting from March 2019: YOURS TRULY, WALT DISNEY

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Photo via SHORPY #WaltDisney #branding #iconicsignature
Signatures collage compiled by The Paperwalker Journal
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

The 'Standard Duck' of all of us

Donald Duck model sheet, ca. 1940-50s, approved by Jack Hannah and Jack King.

«Nostrils shown, only in close ups» «In all cleanups, legs should set well apart and to the rear»
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#donaldduck #modelsheet #standardduck
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Friday, June 12, 2020

Wollmaus

If I had to pick just a few of my personal most favourite preliminary sketches, this one would be for sure one of them. And it's not a duck, to my own surprise.
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#parodyart #mickeymouse #wollmaus #woolmouse
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Category: One Million Dollar Photo

Joseph Barbera, ca. 1983, Tom & Jerry publicity photo (via/courtesy of Kerry Toonz).

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Hanna-Barbera: The Architects Of Saturday Morning

"Before the rise of basic cable, Saturday mornings for many children in America were spent watching cartoons on one of three available television channels. From 1958 through the 1980s, a majority of those cartoons bore the Hanna-Barbera imprint. Creating scores of popular series such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends, and The Smurfs, Hanna-Barbera was an animation powerhouse."
(Norman Rockwell Museum)
Please finde the full story about the very first museum exhibition (which took place from November 12, 2016 to May 29, 2017) on the world’s most successful animation partnership right over here: Hanna-Barbera: The Architects Of Saturday Morning

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Monday, June 08, 2020

Hats, ducks and stuff

Here are some WIP bits from this blog's new header.

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Sunday, June 07, 2020

I went full ACME mode on my birthday, this weekend!

Many, many thanks for all the kind wishes, e-hugs and i-kisses! I will come back to each and every one of you, I just need some sleep, now ...

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